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enragedcacti ◴[] No.43973693[source]
Taking better advantage of a display is nice but imo the really exciting part of desktop mode is the planned integration with Google's Linux Terminal app (i.e. 1st party linux VM support). I have a Samsung DeX device and while you can get a basic dev environment working easily it can be really cumbersome to make it comfortable to use and integrate with your normal tablet workflow. Being able to install full-fat linux apps and run them in a window would be a complete game changer.

source for planned integration: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/392521081?utm_source=...

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Calwestjobs ◴[] No.43977363[source]
Chrome OS allowed this even before 2020. So you could open Linux (even GUI) and android app right next to each other... Had whole JS dev workflow/toolchain running on that ( did not want to clog my main computer with that ). Problem with mixing apps is that for some you have to use mouse/ stylus because their GUI was not meant to be touched.
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1. pjmlp ◴[] No.43983264[source]
Partially, it still has lots of issues that were never fixed.

https://chromeos.dev/en/linux

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo...

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/guide...

Note specially the parts of WIP, missing features, to be yet done, and so on.